Macrotus Gray 1843 (leaf-nosed bat)

Mammalia - Chiroptera - Phyllostomidae

Parent taxon: Phyllostomatidae according to J. R. Choate and E. C. Birney 1968

See also Morgan 1994 and Palmer 1904

Sister taxa: Carolliinae, Desmodontinae, Lonchophyllinae, Lophostoma, Macrophyllum, Micronycteris, Mimon, Phylloderma, Phyllostominae, Stenodermatinae, Trachops, Uroderma, Notonycteris, Phyllostomatinae, Brachyphylla, Erophylla, Lonchophylla, Stenoderma, Phyllonycteris, Mormoops, Glossophaginae, Artibeus

Subtaxa: Macrotus waterhousii

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Ecology: volant omnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of the Bahamas (7 collections), Cayman Islands (9), Cuba (2)

Total: 18 collections each including a single occurrence

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